-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Lourens Veen wrote: > On Tuesday 05 September 2006 19:47, Lance Hanlen wrote: >> On 9/5/06, Lourens Veen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On Thursday 31 August 2006 19:51, Lance Hanlen wrote: >>>> I realized you're absolutely right to be suspicious of patents. >>> As an additional argument: >>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5312696.stm >> This is extremely interesting! I have often pontificated that any >> algorithm can be "improved" past its patented version. If these guys >> really did find a way to beat the MP3 standard, and they can win, all >> our patent worries are over! We just keep improving things :D > > Well, that's one of the points of the patent system. The problem is that > many patents (probably including the MP3 ones) start with very broad > claims that will never hold up anyway (e.g. "apparatus for representing > data representing audio in a compact manner") and then narrow it down > to more specific claims about how they do that. The patent office > accepts these patents, and anyone infringing them by doing more or less > the same in a different manner will first have to go to court to get a > judge to dismiss the broader claims, possibly uphold the narrower > claims, and then decide whether the new implementation infringes upon > the claims that are left. That takes a lot of time and money... > > Lourens
imho, sandisk should come out with the exact same player with ogg vorbis support instead of mp3 ;D -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5-ecc0.1.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFE/pGYXqd/7Teiu2oRAuXgAJ9IBYSkaXjdWAUw/PKMoZHMeQlsgwCfU9dq 9UJPGzB5Pee/PRrw9NtM/GI= =JHLH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
